Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
No Scholarship Records
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Poetry, probably. Mostly in Arabic script; one section in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely addressed to Avraham Maimonides. "... from Yemen to Qūṣ, and they said there the same thing that Sayyidnā (may …
Pages from the dīwān (poetry compilation) or the commentary on the poetry of the Abbasid poet Abū Nuwās (756-814 CE).
Document in Arabic script. Probably an official report or petition, based on the hand and layout. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. The subject …
Letter from a scribe. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that after much travail he has finally completed a Torah codex (muṣḥaf) "in the name of the …
1 Discussion
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
3 Transcriptions 1 Translation
Legal explanations concerning partnerships of property. (Information from CUDL)
Draft of the opening of a petition to 'al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī. . . al-malikī al-muʿaẓẓamī al-muʿizzī al-manṣūrī..." This is found among various other jottings …
On recto a dirge in Hebrew. On verso probably from book of Josiphon. AA
Literary text with ownership note: Yaʿaqov b. Binyamin. The name above this is crossed out.
Late account of sorts, using western Arabic numerals: "What was collected from the mother: first, ashrafiyya coins: 3; second. . . . " The mention …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Looks like it might be literary. On verso there is a selection of Hebrew and Aramaic biblical phrases and some …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the month of Rajab on the verso above the main heading, possibly with a year in the left corner כגץ …
Two pages containing an end of a responsa, a legal query and the beginning of the responsa. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon. AA .
Two sets of 'rules' or 'rights' (ḥuqūq) in Judaeo-Arabic, the first set for 'matter' (? mādda) and the second set for 'mind' (ʿaql). The first …
Either or a petition or a letter of gratitude for the caliph's favorable response to a prior petition. In Arabic script. The ends of approximately …
Legal query from Shelomo b. Yaṣliaḥ to the Sahlān b. Barhūn ha-Ḥaver (titled Rosh Kalla). It is a veiled complaint about a cantor, clad in …
Account in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions gold.
Literary text, rabbinic.
Rabbinic literary work.
Damaged and torn fragment. On recto part from a legal query regarding a release of a female slave, a debt, an oath, a charity that …
Letter mentioning al-Ramlī. (Information from CUDL)
Verso (original use): Two lines of a state document: . . . من استخراج . . . منه الا ما هو على الحضور(؟) والتماس(؟) . …
Recto: verses in Arabic expressing the book owner’s intention to not lend his copy to anybody without making a written note of it. The first …
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic in a difficult cursive hand. Several names appear in the right column: al-muaʿllam Muwwafaq, Saʿīd Qa...(?), ʿAbd al-Daʾīm Nīṣī...(?), Yosef Delano(?), …
Book list. Dating: Probably 13th century, as the latest book mentioned is Sefer ha-Madaʿ (from the Mishneh Torah) by Maimonides. (Information from Allony.)
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Minute fragment, only two words, but might be from a ketubah. AA
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew, in an elevated register, in which the writer narrates something that happened at a synagogue where he was surrounded …
Multi-fragment shelfmark with two documents. The lower (left) document is a fragment of Hebrew-script accounts, medieval-era or possibly later. Names include Shimʿon, Elishaʿ, Avraham, Mordekhay, …
Unidentified text, possibly a letter, quoting Job 1:21. (Information from CUDL)
Much damaged list of debts(?) in a very crude hand. Mentions Iṭrābulusī.
Accounts, mentioning Abū [...] (Manṣur?) son of the elder Abū l-Fakhr al-Sharābī (‘the wine trader’). (Information from CUDL)
Two names in Hebrew script: Shelomo b. David and Riḍā b. Yeshuʿa.
Dowry list of a wealthy bride. The sums given at the bottom are: muqaddam 20, muʾakhkhar 30 and everything 676 (reading uncertain), meaning that the …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half). The hand may be known. Dating: likely 12th century. Mentions the difficulties of the time, a single dirham, and …
Book list. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef (of Qayrawān, active 990s–1030s). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Mentions "my partner" Barhūn b. Faraḥ. The left side of the …
Fragment of a letter on behalf of the lepers of Tiberias.
1 Transcription
Letter written and sent from al-Mahdiyya by Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, containing details about trade in the Maghreb and advising his …
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Likely a promissory note stating that "I owe" a sum of money to "[...] al-Yahūdī."
Fragment of a letter sent to the nasi Shelomo b. Jesse with complaints about Yosef and Yehuda of Cairo who did not answer the writer's …
Several medical recipes in Arabic by the title "صفة معجون نافع للارواح".
Legal document, deed of acknowledgment, concerning an inheritance dispute between Jamīla bt. Lāḥiq the veterinarian and her brother. Contains three testimonies at the bottom. The …
Awaiting description
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerical figures. At least one currency is listed as "בנדוק / bunduq", which is the Venetian gold ducat, and based …
Writing practice. Ottoman-era. Needs examination.